OTD in 1992: Electric Boat started construction on the last Ohio-class submarine, USS Louisiana (SSBN 743). She completed refueling in 2023 & will serve into the 2040s for handoff to the last Columbia boomer, SSBN 837.

Resurgens “Rise Again”…again One year ago today it was announced that Block V Virginia-class submarine SSN-813 will be named Atlanta. Carrying on the name from Los Angeles-class submarine USS Atlanta (SSN-712).

Cruisers CA #SPSCanarias (1936-1975) Canarias Class 📷 #WW2 27-31 May 1941 The Canarias during the rescue mission for the shipwrecked victims of the German battleship Bismarck (Archive González-Aller) Armada 🇪🇦

The USS Oregon (SSN 793), a Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, departing the Port Canaveral Naval Ordnance Test Unit (NOTU) this morning. Fair winds & following seas, sailors! 🫡🇺🇸⚓️ Thread has videos and pictures from multiple angles. 1/x 🧵

Aircraft carrier #USSJohnFKennedy CV67 (1968-2007) John F. Kennedy Class 📷 November 1972 U.S. Navy 🇺🇸

★ 𝘚𝘪𝘤 𝘚𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘺𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘴 ★ OTD in 2004: Virginia-class submarines officially entered service as first-in-class USS Virginia (SSN 774) was commissioned at EB in Groton. Now the most numerous class of boats in the US fleet, surpassing Los Angeles-class last year.

#OTD in 1925, Johnny Carson was born. Carson served as a U.S. Navy officer during WWII. In 1974, he and former Marine pilot Ed McMahon demonstrated the U-Fly-It on THE TONIGHT SHOW. Users launched a toy F-4 Phantom II and then tried to land on a model of USS Enterprise. U-Fly-It

OTD in 1949: the keel was laid for SS-565 Wahoo II at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. 📸In August of 1968 the Tang-class boat Wahoo sank USS Devilfish (SS-292) with a Mark 16 torpedo💥

Midnight operations, unmatched readiness. ⚓ 🚁 Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 79 ensures crew safety and monitors flight deck operations aboard USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) in the Ionian Sea. On mission, on watch, always ready.

Tang-class Wahoo carried forward the name honoring Gato-class SS-238, and her 80 submariners On Eternal Patrol. Soon Block V Virginia-class boat SSN-806, currently under construction, will do the same. 🫡

Portuguese Navy Tridente-class submarine NRP Tridente (S160) coming into Plymouth, England - October 24, 2025 SRC: BSKY-@Mortmeister

Battleships #USSMaryland BB46 (1921-1947) Colorado Class 📷 1924-1927 #OceanPacific U.S. Navy 🇺🇸

24/7, 365, global readiness. This is your U.S. Navy at work. 🌊 ⚓ 🌎

OTD in 2013: USS West Virginia (SSBN 736) departing Norfolk after her 2-1/2 year engineering refueling overhaul.

OTD in 2012: The longest serving US Navy submarine in history and the boat I earned my dolphins on, USS Ohio (SSGN 726) visiting Busan. 🇺🇸 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖘𝖙 & 𝕱𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖙

Ancient instruments of forgotten dark arts

Cαʋҽ Lυρυɱ🐺 -Today I share my birthday with the boat with 90's style & an 80's budget. OTD in 1989: construction began on a new species of predator as the keel was laid for USS Seawolf (SSN 21). My start date is the same day, but a few years earlier 😉

There’s my sister, showing herself for our birthday 👋 🐺 A-wooooooooo!

Corvette FFLH #INSKadmatt P29 Kamorta Class 📷 December 2023 #Yokosuka #Japan ⚓︎アルザス⚓︎ SpokespersonNavy 🇮🇳

Future USS Utah (SSN 801) Virginia-class Block IV nuclear attack submarine being christened in Groton, Connecticut - October 25, 2025 SRC: multiple